To: Ash From: McWhertor Re: Sloppy Joes, So Sloppy, So Joey Bash, consider me officially jealous of your sloppy joe partaking. I haven’t had a decent meal since… last Thursday, I guess, when I stuffed myself full of raw salmon, tuna, broiled eel and rice. Since then, it’s been nothing but fruits and cereals and…
In addition to more than 20 minutes worth of Rush, the next Guitar Hero will feature these 22 newly revealed songs, ranging from the darn good Blue Oyster Cult’s “Burnin’ For You” to the ear-searing “Unskinny Bop” by Poison. Amazon offers a look at and a listen to the newest soundtrack additions for Guitar Hero:…
Comic-Con 2010 has come and gone. Our coverage will continue throughout the week, but if you missed any of this weekend’s big Comic-Con stories, now’s the time to remedy that with our handy wrap-up. Keep an eye peeled for more previews, hands-on impressions, bizarre cosplay, galleries and more from the quirky, all-inclusive pop culture Con.…
After taking a back seat to the Nintendo DSi LL for a few weeks in Japan, the PSP is back on top, outselling Nintendo’s recently cheapened platform. That said… …the Nintendo DS is still the three-way winner, selling more than 47,000 units across its three flavors. The battle between the Wii and PS3 is still…
Our regularly scheduled Friday post, asking what it is you’re playing this weekend, was slightly delayed due to Comic-Con. So instead of asking what you were planning on playing, let us know what you really played this weekend. While I played a handful of games prior to the official weekend—Gears of War 3, Dance Central,…
We went to Flynn’s Arcade last year during Comic-Con 2009 to play some games, take some pics and enjoy a little Daft Punk. Disney did Flynn’s again this year, only it did it bigger and better. The classic arcade games were still there, as were the copies of Space Paranoids, the game feature in the…
A Twilight cosplayer—aligned with Team Jacob and apparently in Big Head mode—proves that werewolves don’t belong in the Street Fighter line-up. Spotted outside the Capcom booth at Comic-Con 2010.
Comic-Con went a little insane today when a Harry Potter-loving attendee reportedly stabbed another man in the face with a pen at the convention center’s massive Hall H. That alleged attack went down following today’s Resident Evil: Afterlife panel. According to a report from Entertainment Weekly on the incident, San Diego police arrested the alleged…
Ubisoft has tapped Oscar-winning filmmakers Francois Alaux and Herve de Crecy to create a 20 minute film to promote Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. Half of the directing team was at Comic-Con today with a taste of that gorgeous looking project. Dubbed “Alpha,” the promotional movie will offer a live action look at the ghosts of…
Overshadowed by the reveal of Street Fighter X Tekken, Tekken X Street Fighter and Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition was Street Fighter IV producer Yoshinori Ono’s commitment to costumes. Yes, there will be more downloadable costumes. These costumes. Ono said that after shipping more than 4 million copies of Street Fighter IV and…
Eat Sleep Play co-founder David Jaffe offered a glimpse at the new Twisted Metal’s storytelling action at Comic-Con 2010, live action cinematics that will flesh out the stories of its stars, Sweet Tooth, Dollface, Mr. Grim and the Preacher. Jaffe said that the decision to go with live action cinematics for each character’s introduction and…
Disney’s Epic Mickey is only coming to the Wii, but a newly announced pair of comic book projects based on the game will bring Mickey’s adventures to other platforms, including paper, PSP and the iPhone. Epic Mickey designer Warren Spector and comic book writer Peter David held a panel at Comic-Con today, offering a look…
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker maker Hideo Kojima andpublisher Square Enix are working together on toys and game crossovers, like Metal Gear’s cameo in Front Mission Evolved. The collaboration between the two appears to be primarily focused around… stickers. Yes, in Front Mission Evolved, you’ll be able to decorate your Wanzer—those giant mechs you’ll control…
DC Direct knows how to put together a video game toy. The collectible and toy maker is tackling the soon to be released StarCraft II and even more characters from World of Warcraft for its next lines. While DC DIrect’s StarCraft II action figure showing at Comic-Con was a little light on Zerg for my…
Street Fighter IV producer Yoshinori Ono had his “Street Fighter IV and Beyond” panel interrupted by Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada today, with the rival fighting game makers joining together to announce two Street Fighter versus Tekken collaborations. Street Fighter X Tekken was introduced with a teaser trailer featuring Street Fighter’s Ryu facing down Tekken’s Kazuya…
At today’s “Street Fighter IV and Beyond” panel, Capcom producer Yoshinori Ono revealed that he and his team “haven’t forgotten about Street Fighter III.” As proof, Ono offered an announcement, Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition. “We’re just starting to work on it,” Ono said of the new version of Street Fighter III, so…
Extend the fiction of Dead Space to your shoulders and show the world your current stasis levels with Visceral’s new Isaac Clarke backpack. Grab it at the Visceral online store if this is whole Dead Space thing is your bag.
Square Enix, in addition to making fancy video games, also makes a fancy toy or two. The company’s Play Arts Kai line of highly detailed figures is welcoming Halo: Reach to the fold with two waves of posh toys. Halo: Reach’s Noble Team squad will be immortalized in high grade materials starting this fall, when…
It starts with a box, says the developer of the follow up to the hugely successful Fallout 3. Oh, but don’t call that box a post apocalyptic role-playing game. That’s a pretty crappy way to describe it. So says, Fallout: New Vegas lead creative designer John Gonzalez, the man responsible for the over-arching story in…
Step one, put on a huge Pikachu costume. That’s it. There’s no step two. As seen outside the Pokemon booth at Comic-Con, which dwarfs the Nintendo video games booth.
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